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President Francois Hollande is outraged by the publication of photographs in a French magazine of his nocturnal visits to his mistress, the film star Julie Gayet. He is threatening to sue Closer under France�s draconian privacy laws. His colleagues in the Socialist Party are also spluttering and muttering. Indeed, much of the French political class thinks the magazine has crossed a dangerous line in a country in which the sexual shenanigans of leading politicians are normally off-limits.